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...Nicholas J. Ward ’09, said. “I’m bad with my thumbs.” The tournament featured games for groups of 12. Each group’s top six players progressed to the next round. Regularly throughout the night, tickets were drawn for prizes, which included Microsoft bottles and thermoses, copies of Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Zune media players, Xbox 360s, and giftcards to Starbucks, Bertucci’s, and Felipe’s. Clutching free slices of Pinocchio’s pizza, the attendees weaved through scattered inflatable couches. The grease...
...careers, and is the first program of its kind. Tufts should be applauded for its ingenuity and leadership, and we hope Harvard will follow suit. Non-profits are a valuable asset to society, yet a growing discrepancy between starting salaries in the public and private sectors has increasingly drawn college graduates to choose the latter. Many of these students have amassed large amounts of debt during their education and are forced into higher-paying jobs in order to pay off their loans. Indeed, Princeton economists Jesse M. Rothstein ’95 and Cecilia E. Rouse...
...wait, it gets worse. As the computerized Armada heave into sight, Elizabeth, dolled up in Joan of Arc drag - shining armor, waving a big sword - takes it into her head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director...
...effort to glorify the hyper-masculine settler who supposedly defended his home. In our modern day, Faludi notes the predominance of the cowboy mentality in politics: “We get candidates that fit the climate,” Faludi said. And after Sept. 11, Americans were drawn to an individualistic cowboy President who sought terrorists “dead or alive,” she said.Even the film industry contributed to this surge in national machismo, according to Faludi.In the 2005 film “War of the Worlds,” Tom Cruise’s character represents...
...books above is “Why Men Love Bitches,” a book that shows women how to become more desirable while losing any remnants of decency and self-respect. While in other genres the differences in male and female readership aren’t as clearly drawn, they still exist. A recent survey in The Guardian asked men and women to name the books most personally important to them. The results found that men were drawn to books about isolationism (number one was Camus’ “The Outsider”), while women tended toward...